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No Bake Nutella Balls (chocolate truffles)

Here’s a new favourite truffle I added to our Christmas cookie boxes this year. I’ll share with you how to make No Bake Nutella Balls covered in chocolate with a few sprinkles to make them look festive. These were so delicious. I had a hard time not eating all of them myself. You can crush the graham crackers yourself, but I just purchased a box of crumbs. No Bake Nutella Balls Makes about 50 balls Adapted from The Carefree Kitchen Ingredients For the filling 1/2 cup of butter, softened 1 1/4 cup Nutella 1 cup graham cracker crumbs 2 cups icing sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla For the coating 1 1/2 cups meting chocolate (I used milk) Directions Combine all filling ingredients until a dough forms. You can add more Nutella or graham crumbs  if you feel the dough is too soft or dry. The dough should hold its shape once rolled.  Roll teaspoon size balls and place in a single layer in the freezer for 30 minutes.  Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or bowl over a simmering pot of wa...
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Banana Gingerbread Cake with Vanilla Glaze

I still have more brown bananas sitting around.

 To use them up, this time I chose to do a banana gingerbread cake. It was great!




Banana Gingerbread Cake with Vanilla Glaze
Adapted from Delicious as it Looks
Makes 24 servings

 Ingredients
For the Cake
  • 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1/4 cup 2% milk
  • 1/2 cup avocado (or other flavourless) oil
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
For the Glaze
  • 1 tablespoon 2% milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon melted butter
  • 1 tablespoon maple or corn syrup
  • 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
Directions
  1. Preheat the oven to 325F. Spray and flour a 9x13 cake pan (or a loaf pan).
  2. Combine  bananas, milk, oil, molasses, eggs and sugar in a bowl. Whisk until well combined.
  3. Combine flour, ginger, cinnamon, salt and baking soda and stir into the wet mixture just until combined.
  4. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
  5. Cool the cake completely before adding the glaze.
  6. To make the glaze, simply mix all the glaze ingredients in a bowl, and spread over the cake. You can add more milk or sugar depending on how thick you want your glaze to be.
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